"The superfluous, a very necessary thing...." - Quote by Voltaire

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”

“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.”

“Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.”

“Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.”

“The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.”

“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”

“True words seem false.”

“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”